There’s nothing like a good bit of research and a nice neat model to sucker me in. The report on the impact of different types of leaders on turning around failing schools by Alex Hill and Ben Laker, from the Centre for High Performance, is well worth reading. Continue reading
Thank you to everyone who completed the MTQ48 measurer. There were 150 returns to be analysed. I hope people found their individual reports useful, interesting and thought provoking. Many people fed back that it was a good way of understanding the 4 Cs framework of Mental Toughness – Control, Commitment, Challenge and Confidence – and what it means for staff leader and student development. Continue reading
Prior to the 1980s, education was very much a local issue set within the context of the 1944 Education Act. A move to comprehensive schools in the 1960s was arguably the major event. How times have changed. Like many people of my age, I have been honed, damaged and shaped by an era of increasingly pernicious accountability and the confused autonomy granted to us by successive governments. Continue reading